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Premium Tutorial: Vector Film Reel

Movie film reels, twisting film strips and clapper boards are the best elements you can spice up your movie ads or websites. The first part of this illustrator tutorial will cover on how to create movie film can. The next part will cover on how to create a clapper board from scratch. Lastly, you will learn how to use envelope distort and subtraction of paths to create amazing looking film strips. It’s quite easy, nothing too difficult for a beginner.
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Premium Tutorial: Racing Bike

Need more tips on drawing vehicles in illustrator? John Urban will show you how to draw a sleek vector racing bike in illustrator in this new premium tutorial. He will start with a pencil sketch and show you how he turns it into a full blown detailed illustration. You will learn various techniques and tips to color the bike in this new tutorial.

So let’s get your engine started!
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Vectordiary.com Back Again!

You may have noticed that the website has been down for a week. It has been sluggish last month and the server crashed at the end of the month. It took a week to reinstall the whole database and upgrade the server. Now, you will experience a faster loading time.

Also, there will be 3 new premium tutorials this month as I wan’t able to publish the second tutorial for last month. So enjoy!

Vector Freebies: 12 Floral Borders & Dividers

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In this new freebie, AiFactory has created a beautiful set of 12 floral borders and dividers. You can use it as a illustrator brush to decorate your design with collection of wonderful borders. It is also a good collection for your wedding card design.

Visit AiFactory to download more vector freebies!

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Illustrator Tutorial: How to Make an Icy Cocktail

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Do you desire to drink an icy refreshing cocktail on a sunny day? I know I am, so in this Illustrator tutorial, I will explain how I draw a refreshing cocktail drink in Adobe illustrator. Hope you will find this useful and inspiring to make other kinds of drinks or cocktails.
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Premium Tutorial: Photorealistic Vector Car

Learn to create this photorealistic vector Mustang car in this new Illustrator tutorial written by Bobby. Bobby has done several vector car illustrations on Deviantart. He has also received 5 Daily Deviation features and is known for his vector car illustrations. For the very first time, he will share with you his secret techniques in car illustrations. You will be able to get an insight on car illustration after this tutorial.

See some of his fantastic vector cars collection in his portfolio.
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Learn More with New Premium Membership!

Vector Diary will be offering premium membership at a low cost of $6 a month. The main objective of the premium tutorials is to help you learn more illustrator skills and techniques. The fees will help pay for the cost of the hosting, site administration and writers. We have kept the fees at a minimum $6 a month to benefit everyone. The things you will learn in premium tutorials far exceed the cost of the fees. Finally, I hope that premium tutorials can benefit you and you can show your support to Vector Diary by joining as a premium member.

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